A week of engineering events organised by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) at the end of June is set to showcase the creativity of current and future engineers across the South West. On 28 June, activities for young people will celebrate women in engineering and inspire schoolgirls interested in the sciences. On 29 June, judges will announce winners of The Primary Engineer and Secondary Engineer Leaders Awards, and the following day families can view the schoolchildren's exhibited designs.

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is to launch the second of its indoor drone events, where families have the chance to build a remote-controlled plane, have a go in a simulator, or construct an autonomous airship with the Royal Air Force (RAF). Budding coders can also take part in a hackathon to programme a drone, while engineers will do the same to get their machines to fly unaided and race each other.

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and DE&S (part of the Ministry of Defence) have teamed up with Primary Engineer Programmes and kicked off the Year of Engineering by launching the South West England Region's Primary Engineer & Secondary Engineer Leaders Award, a national engineering competition for schools.

Silas Adenkule, a University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) robotics graduate who set up Reach Robotics in 2013 with his business partner and co-founder Chris Beck, is celebrating another success.

Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research funded by the Research Councils UK RCUK. (EPSRC funded project EP/P016677/1)

The paper entitled 'Liquid Marble Interaction Gate for Collision-Based Computing' is published by Elsevier in Materials Today. The research is led by Professor Andy Adamatzky and Dr Ben De Lacy Costello.

Andrew Lewis was awarded the Honorary Degree of Master of Technology (Hon DTech) by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) in recognition of his contribution as a Paralympian and elite sportsman alongside his commitment to inspiring others to overcome adversity and to developing new technology.

Professor Iain Gray was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering (Hon DEng) by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) in recognition of his contribution to the UK aerospace industry.